English Flashcards

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L’anglais, la langue anglaise

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English, the English language

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2
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Une langue maternelle

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A mother-tongue

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3
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Un pays anglophone

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An English-speaking country

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4
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Un anglophone

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A native English speaker, an Anglophone

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5
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Le langage soutenue

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Formal language

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6
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Le langage familier

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Informal, colloquial language

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7
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L’argot

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Slang

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8
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L’anglais parlé / écrit

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Spoke / written English

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Une expression

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A phrase, an expression

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10
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Une formule, un slogan

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A catch phrase

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11
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Un mot à la mode

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A buzz word

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12
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Une expression figée, toute faite

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A set phrase

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13
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Un cliché

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A cliché

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14
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La langue de bois

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Cant

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15
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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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16
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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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17
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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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18
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Epeler un mot

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To spell a word

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L’orthographe

20
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Une litote

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An understatement

21
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Un euphémisme

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A euphemism

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Vouloir dire, signifier

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Le sens

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Dénué de sens

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Meaningless

25
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En d’autres termes

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In other words

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C’est-à-dire

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That is to say

27
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Comment dirais-je ?

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How can I put it?

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Traduire un texte en arabe

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To translate a text into Arabic

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Traduire un texte du japonais

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To translate a text from Japanese

30
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Mal traduire quelque chose

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To mistranslate something

31
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Parler bien l’espagnol

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To speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish

32
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Parler le portugais couramment

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To speak Portuguese fluently, to speak fluent Portuguese

33
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L’aisance de quelqu’un à s’exprimer en suédois

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Somebody’s fluency in Swedish

34
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Compétence en anglais

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Proficiency in English

35
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Un test de compétence

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A proficiency test

36
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Le TOEFL

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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

37
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Parler un mauvais hollandais

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To speak poor Dutch

38
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Parler mal le chinois

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To speak broken Chinese

39
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S’exprimer

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To express oneself

40
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Se faire comprendre

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To make oneself understood

41
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Rafraîchir son allemand

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To brush up one’s German

42
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Anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir

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Pidgin English (A mixture of English and local languages which enables people who do not share a common language to communicate)

43
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Un dialecte

44
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Le charabia

45
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L’anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones